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HEART"
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"AT LAST THOU COMEST"
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"THE LINGERING LIGHT OF THE SUN"
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"I HAVE DRUNK YOUR TEARS WITH INSATIATE LIPS"
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SOUND BUTTERFLIES (IN A FOUNTAIN)
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"EVEN IN SADNESS THOU ART BESIDE ME"
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"BY THE SEA OF SLEEP WALKS WHITE-ROBED NIGHT"
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FAREWELL (AFTER A HINDUSTANI SONG)
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SATIETY
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"DROWSY THE NOONDAY AIR"
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CHATTERTON
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"A SUMMER SONG IT WAS"
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"WHO KNOWS"
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THE FIRST VISION

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SHANTI
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SANDHYA, SONGS OF TWILIGHT
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SYMBOLISM
Tongueless the bell!
Lute without a song!
It is not night
It is
God's dawn,
Silence its unending song.
Over heart's valley,
In the soul's night,
Through pain's window

Behold! His light!
On Life's Height.
No prayer, now,
Though death-waves roll,
Faith's candle lit,

Beside it sits the soul
Reading Eternity's scroll.
2
SOURCE OF SINGING
A bruised heart,
A wounded soul,
A broken lute,
That is all!
A sad evening,
And a lone star,
Then song reddens--
Sets life's forest afire!
3
With purple shadows the mist measures the infinite sea
That spreads
her wave-raiment in lavender, violet, gray, and green; While with thin
silver rays a lone star seeks to sound the deeps.
The breeze-wings tire of flight;
The mist-threads weave a
rose-fringed dusky drapery
To cover the bare breasts of the dunes

from the moon's langour-heavy eyes.
The shadows die in purple silence;
Fades the one star from the sky,

As the dark